Portfolio & Project Management Office

The purpose of the Portfolio and Project Management Office (PPMO) is to provide project, program or portfolio management consulting and tools. The PPMO consists of 6 core staff members with expertise in project, program, portfolio, and process management. This team helps academic and administrative units identify their project or portfolio management goals and achieve those goals through expert consulting and facilitation. For more information about PPMO and other CIO team members, please see About Us.

Current services

Portfolio Management

A portfolio is a collection of projects, programs, and other work that is grouped together to facilitate effective management of that work in order to meet strategic business objectives

A portfolio management process:

controls the floodgates of incoming projects

helps reduce workload and resulting stress

provides a complete picture of your work

The PPMO will work with your designated Portfolio Manager to build and balance a strategic portfolio, to provide planning assistance and templates, and to help establish processes for ongoing monitoring and controlling your portfolio.

Program Management

Program management is the consistent management of a set of interrelated projects designed to accomplish a single outcome. The PPMO staff has considerable expertise in program management and provides services to help you establish the necessary standards and infrastructure to effecitvely manage a set of projects

Project Management

The PPMO provides training, assistance, and tools for project managers across the University. This methodology is based on industry standards and has been customized by seasoned project managers to fit the unique needs of the University of Illinois.

Application Retirement Process (ARP)

At some point, applications are no longer cost effective to maintain, no longer meet the business needs of the users, or introduce too much risk into the enterprise. The Application Retirement Process helps an organization assess their current portfolio of applications with the intent to maximize their effectiveness and minimize their costs. The PPMO provides a customizable framework on how to achieve cost reduction and a maintainable application portfolio. For more information, please see the full ARP services description.

For more information, please contact the Portfolio & Project Management Office at PPMO@uillinois.edu.